That Voice (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Pinget
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: Unspecified
- Setting: The fictional French villages of Fantoine and Agapa
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Memory, France or French people, Libraries or librarians, Historians, Mysteries, Gossip, Cemeteries
- Locales: France, Agapa, France, Fantoine, France
Characters Discussed
Aléxandre Mortin (ah-lehk- SAHNDR mohr-TA[N]), a failed author and would-be historian. At the age of twenty, he published some poems in the Fantoniard, the local newspaper, and then earned a scant living as a hack writer. With his small mustache; old, greasy hat; and pince-nez glasses, he was a common sight in the village of Fantoine as he went about collecting all forms of printed matter—newspapers, advertisements, and catalogs—and gossip in an effort to chronicle the history of his family and region. Given to drink and perhaps senile in his...
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